Theoretical and numerical study of the phase diagram of patchy colloids: Ordered and disordered patch arrangements
Theoretical and numerical study of the phase diagram of patchy colloids: Ordered and disordered patch arrangements
We report theoretical and numerical evaluations of the phase diagram for a model of patchy particles. Specifically, we study hard spheres whose surface is decorated by a small number f of identical sites ("sticky spots") interacting via a short-ranged square-well attraction. We theoretically evaluate, solving the Wertheim theory, the location …